In the words of Iranian human rights advocate, lawyer, and former judge Shirin Ebadi: “The idea of cultural relativism (the view that ethical and social standards reflect the cultural context ...

Philosopher Bernard Williams once said that “we all have a good idea of what human rights are,” echoing Saint Vincent’s Catholic notion of “what everyone, always and by everyone is ...

While most of these issues have been concerned with empirical developments regarding human rights abuses, the conceptual underpinnings that inform this debate are less often analysed. In particular, ...

By liberal relativism I mean the set of values and institutions which limit human rights to negative claims on the state to refrain from interfering with the freedom of individuals. This ...

Over the objections of human rights groups, the AU held its annual summit in Khartoum last week - and debated whether or not to turn over leadership of the organization to Sudan.

The universality of human rights and what can be borrowed from a particular cultural heritage to affirm or further those rights need not be mutually exclusive. This is certainly the case with the ...

Apr 27, 2007 / 08:02 am In his weekly pastoral letter, Archbishop Agustin Garcia Gasco of Valencia warned that the “defense of human rights on our planet is being lethally undermined by ...

“[A] big error by some multiculturalists has been to bow to demands for cultural sensitivity by tacitly accepting that some peoples and communities can be exempt ...